How to prove you are working when you are working from home
A friend of mine recently got a job in Taiwan and he is fortunate enough to work from home and fly out there for one week a month. The problem is that his boss is worried that he might not be putting in eight hours a day when he is working from home and wants [...]
You Can’t Look for a Job from a Remote Location – It Doesn’t Work
I’ve had this conversation so many times it’s painful. A friend calls me up from “you name it” city: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Let me know if you hear of anything interesting.” I guess [...]
The Long-Term Value of Loyalty
Oh, boy. Here we go again. Another post on job hopping. This will be my final word on the topic. I promise. My goal here is to move the debate forward, add my POV but not inflame things any further. Inflaming was never my goal. Let’s see if I can achieve that. My WORD of [...]
Starting a New Series on Entrepreneurialism
I continually talk about how starting a new company can be one of the smartest things you can do in the current recession. Especially if you are part of the growing legions of the unemployed for 14 weeks or more, it is going to be a difficult 2010 for many people, and many of the [...]
Use Social Networking to find your next job and love it
“Your job security no longer lies in having a job; it lies in knowing how to work the job market”. – @susanireland The attached file is Using social networking to find your next job and love it is meant to help people find their next job. This PDF is all about using Linkedin and other [...]
Crowd Source Your Next Job – Looking for Your Stories
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Looking for input from readers on how they conduct a job search using social media tools. While I have road tested just about every job tool out there from Monster in 1999 through Dice, Career Builder, Linkedin and other job sourcing tools – the bottom line is that all [...]
Cloud Computing Does Not Absolve a Company of Good Disaster Planning
Yes the data blowout at Microsoft’s Danger data center should have everyone taking a short sharp look at the way that they do data recovery and disaster preparedness. The problem is not so much the outage but the data loss, data loss caused because the backups didn’t work. This is not a cloud computing issue [...]
Top 10 Reasons Never to Friend Your Boss Online
Nothing against bosses, they perform a vital function in many organizations. While I know that some people will argue that statement, and do so eloquently, there are some solid reasons why you never ever want to friend your boss on any of the social networks. Here are the top 10 reasons why you never want [...]
Becoming Self-Employed? You Already Are!
Zen Habits has a post up called "The Get-Started-Now Guide to Becoming Self-Employed". As with most ZH posts, it’s well-written and thoughtful, but that’s not what I’m blogging about. Regardless of what you think or what your W-2 says, you are already self-employed. If you want to be successful, start thinking of yourself as [...]
Should the Junior level Professional Blog?
I’ve stolen the title from Chad Pursley, who devoted a post to the subject and asked the same question on my older post, Resumes are Dead. Social Media is Your New Resume: Right but to what extent is this a good thing and to what extent can it backfire? Does it change if like me [...]
So You Didn’t Make Millions: Don’t Quit Blogging Just Yet
Image via Wikipedia Do you know who Dan Lyons is? Of course .. Fake Steve Jobs. He just announced he’d quit blogging, since: While blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn’t one of them. But wait! Did you know Dan Lyons 3 years ago? I admit I didn’t. Perhaps it’s [...]
It’s Too Late to Start Networking When You’re Laid Off
Robert Scoble has a long laundry-list on how to effectively use social media in your job search if you are laid off. I agree with all but three points he makes: It’s a little late to start when you get laid off. Proactive brand creation before you really need it works a lot better. Roberts [...]
So Is It a Good or Bad Time to Found a Startup After All?
Now is a Great Time to Join or Found a Startup –says Bob Warfield, friend and fellow Enterprise Irregular. Now is a Terrible Time to Join or Found a Startup -says Charlie Wood, friend and fellow Enterprise Irregular. Now what? Who is right? And the debate does not stop here, it sparked a pretty good [...]
Resumes are Dead. Social Media is Your New Resume.
Just as I finished editing my Inbound Marketing piece I quickly scanned Google Reader and realized that David Meerman Scott and I were writing about one and the same thing. Except his post title is: Downsized? Fired? Here are the new rules of finding a job. Yes, the parallels are striking.; If you find yourself [...]
Inbound Marketing, Sales & Customer Advocacy
Connecting the dots is the tagline on my personal blog, for a good reason: I enjoy reading individual pieces and discovering the common theme in them. Such two articles are a guest post on CloudAve by a practicing SaaS CEO, Julian Shakespeare Stone: To Sell or Not To Sell, and Rick Burnes’s piece @ HubSpot [...]
